Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Doozergirl

Love the chandelier, maggie. Very pretty and playful.

neverdespairgirl

tomterm8 wrote: »

That sounds like a lot of work, LiR. Well done!

And it's cool that you got Isaac involved in planting herbs, NDG, . I'm a fan of container gardening, and I bet he'll love watching the sunflower grow.

I think the garden currently is the best it's been in three years... there's a lot to do in it still but we're finally catching up on tasks.

Our rolling acres (in central London) are, not surprisingly, rather limited. But you can grow a large number of nice things on a big, south-facing window sill with large windows, so we make the best of it.

My Dad already has plans to put Isaac to work planting when we're next at my parents' house in Kent (their acres roll rather more impressively, in a very rural part of the Garden of England) but it's still good to have some stuff growing at home.

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Hi LiR,

I think I finally got camera card to talk to computer, so have uploaded one of the bonkers chandelier photos for you to take a look at.

Wow, that is seriously bling! If you're going to do something like that, you should really go for it as they have, not be half-hearted (-:

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Depart AMS at 17:40 so can easily do it the same day and of course can use the lounges everywhere. Say £50 single to AMS and saving for family of 5 is 'only' 6,750 - worth spending an extra 12 hours on the journey to me but I guess it depends what you earn per hour....

Works well if all flights go to plan. The risk is that your initial flight to place you in AMS gets delayed and as that is one a separate booking the other flights are at risk.

We did the reverse, used airmiles to get a flight to the USA and then paid for an onward flight to where we really wanted to be. As they were with different airlines and separate bookings we allowed a few hours between the 2. First flight arrived early so we decided to spend ££ to take the earlier flight out to final destination.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Does Michaels (or any other NP) have any tips for finding decent LH fares on J or W class?

I don't have enough miles to upgrade at the moment...

Can route through AMS or CDG just as easily/cheaply as LHR/LGW due to starting from Scotland, and can split ticket purchases if there's an easy saving to be made on APD?

Is there some secret moneysaving thing that you all do or is it just a matter of using skyscanner (or similar) and playing with dates?

headforpoints website will have loads of tips on building up your points balance to get enough points for the upgrade.

LydiaJ

I have been venturing out onto other threads on the board and getting a bit belligerent (well, belligerent compared with how I usually am, anyway - maybe not particularly so compared with the rest of the board ). Am now not sure if that was a good idea. Perhaps I had better retreat in here again. :whistle:

ukmaggie45

Here's the other bonkers chandelier, plus the one that was in our bedroom.







The bedheads were pretty amazing too - next post!

lostinrates

I love chandeliers maggie! Thanks for pics.

ukmaggie45

Loved the carving on the bedheads, the bedfoots matched too, but was too knackered to take better photos of them.







This is the huge mirror over the fireplace, plus you get the reflection of the bedroom chandelier in it.





Here's a shot of the frieze over the mirror between the 2 huge windows in the room. I think this mirror is very old.




Just found I did upload pic of the aged mirror - you can even see me reflected! :eek: Shame about the TV placement in front of it!

Yorkie1

zagubov wrote: »

The sum total of my gardening consited of
-checking that my compost bin was now a bona fide slug sanctuary.
-and recycling two carloads of tree cuttings down the tip. Thank goodness for the council's queuecam on thier website. Both times I went there the queue was about ten cars long but on leaving there was about thirty!:eek:

Queuecam?! Definitely a posh alert :rotfl:

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

We did "gardening" this weekend too - as in, OH and Isaac planted herbs, carrots and sunflowers in our window boxes. They aren't little ones, the window sill is massive (about 4 feet deep) and the 3 boxes are large, too, in total they take up about 10 feet x 4 feet.

I think at that size they probably qualify as raised beds ...

I spent time weeding out that horrid sticky stuff (when more mature it has sticky balls on it) - probably a futile battle given that the roots are very pervasive. Among the bluebells that make an annual bid for world domination, that is :eek:

Come Tuesday morning I'll be struggling to sit down (it always takes 48 hours for the full effects of gardening to impact, I find).

Thinking of you tomorrow LIR.

lostinrates

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I spent time weeding out that horrid sticky stuff (when more mature it has sticky balls on it) - probably a futile battle given that the roots are very pervasive. Among the bluebells that make an annual bid for world domination, that .

Cleavers.

Horses love it. We harvest it in arm fulls and wheel barrow loads to take round to them ( you rarely see it in horse fields in quantity because they gobble it all up) We call the little balls 'biddy bids' I don't know why, my mother called them that so I do too.

We had a gardener for a while who called cleavers sticky willy which made me laugh so DH and I often call it sticky willy still.


The nice thing about sticky willy is it at least peels to leave a clean surface quickly enough.


We brought bind weed on some bought in plants from an expensive nurseryman. This makes me furious.

Yorkie1

Ugh, bindweed. Got that in some parts of the garden, but at least it's not marestail :eek:

Cleavers, yes. I've also heard it called sticky willy, and goose grass (no idea why that one).

I'll stick it all in the post for you ...